Title: Thoughts for every day: Menu 1: Select the date
1Thoughts for every day Menu 1 Select the date
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July to December
2Thoughts for every day Menu 2 Select the date
- July 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
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13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,
25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 - November 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,
25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 - December 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,
25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
January to June
3PEACE OF MIND
- The mind is never right but when it is at peace
within itself. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
4HAPPINESS
- There is no duty so much underrated as the duty
of being happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson
5ACCEPTANCE
- God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I
cannot change, the courage to change the things I
can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr
6FORGIVENESS
- Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
- Gerald Jampolsky
7COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- God brings men into deep waters not to drown
them, but to cleanse them. - Aughey
8THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
THE FENCE
- Envy comes from peoples ignorance of, or lack of
belief in, their own gifts. - Jean Vanier
9HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
- Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
10FRIENDSHIP
- True friendship comes when silence between two
people is comfortable. - Dave Tyson Gentry
11OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
- When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.
- Anon
12FAITH AND BELIEF
- Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith
looks up. - Guideposts
13PRAYER
- Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.
- John Aikman Wallace
14SELF-ACCEPTANCE
- You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but
you will never succeed if you dont believe in
yourself. - William J.H. Boetcker
15SELF-CONTROL
- Self-control is the quality that distinguishes
the fittest to survive. - George Bernard Shaw
16SELF-CONFIDENCE
- Experience tells you what to do confidence
allows you to do it. - Stan Smith
17SIMPLICITY
- What I do, I do very well, and what I dont do
well, I dont do at all. - Anon
18ONE DAY
- Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
- John H. Patterson
19YESTERDAY THE PAST
- Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days
youre going to miss in the years ahead. - Anon
20TODAY THE PRESENT
- The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to
do good work today. - Elbert Hubbard
21THIS MOMENT
- If it werent for the last minute, nothing would
get done. - Anon
22MORNINGS
- Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in
time to get an early start. - Edgar Watson Howe
23EVENINGS
- Sum up at night what thou has done by day.
- Lord Herbert
24TOMORROW THE FUTURE
- Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
25AVERAGE, BORING DAYS
- Everything considered, work is less boring than
amusing oneself. - Charles Baudelaire
26DIFFICULT DAYS
- The secret of patience to do something else in
the meantime. - Anon
27POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES
AND ACTIONS
- Give to the world the best you have and the best
will come back to you. - Madeline Bridges
28ENTHUSIASM
- Give me a man who sings at his work.
- Thomas Carlyle
29HOPE
- Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would
be easier. - Anon
30VISUALIZATION
- We all live under the same sky, but we dont all
have the same horizon. - Konrad Adenauer
31ROLE MODELS
- Example is the school of mankind, and they will
learn at no other. - Burke
32CHANGE
- Progress is impossible without change, and those
who cannot change their minds cannot change
anything. - George Bernard Shaw
33DECISIONS
- Wherever you see a successful business, someone
once made a courageous decision. - Peter Drucker
34INSTINCTS
- Systems die instincts remain.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
35DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US
- Skills vary. We must strive by that which is
born in us. - Pindar
36MOTIVATION
- To be what we are, and to become what we are
capable of becoming, is the only end of life. - Baruch Spinoza
37REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
- Sometimes it is more important to discover what
one cannot do, than what one can do. - Lin Yutang
38GOALS
- The one thing worth living for is to keep ones
soul pure. - Marcus Aurelius
39FEAR
- Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool
is never afraid. - Ron Meyer
40WORRY
- Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my
mind full of God, and so theres no room left for
worry thoughts. - Howard Chandler Christy
41DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
- Any coward can fight a battle when hes sure of
winning. - George Eliot
42SECURITY
- There is no security on this earth. Only
opportunity. - General Douglas MacArthur
43RISKS
- No one reaches a high position without daring.
- Publilius Syrus
44COURAGE
- To know what is right and not do it is the worst
cowardice. - Confucius
45WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER
LIFE DEMANDS OF US
- The will of God will not take you where the grace
of God cannot keep you. - Anon
46COMMITMENT
- If you dont stand for something, youll fall for
anything. - Michael Evans
47GETTING GOING
- Inspirations never go in for long engagements
they demand immediate marriage to action. - Brendan Francis
48SUCCESS
- The very first step towards success in any
occupation is to become interested in it. - Sir William Osler
49LUCK
- The one who is intent on making the most of his
opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. - B.C. Forbes
50OPPORTUNITY
- The successful person is one who had the chance
and took it. - Roger Babson
51COMMITMENT
- Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with
half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame
endeavor. - Isaac Barrow
52CONCENTRATION
- Concentrate on finding your goal, then
concentrate on reaching it. - Colonel Michael Friedsman
53WORK
- Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you
occasionally find men who disgrace labor. - Ulysses S. Grant
54PERFECTION
- The person with insight enough to admit his
limitations comes nearest to perfection. - Johann von Goethe
55JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,THEN LET IT GO
- God tests His real friends more severely than the
lukewarm ones. - Katheryn Hulme
56TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
- I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for
the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield
57PERSEVERANCE
- They who are the most persistent, and work in the
true spirit, will invariably be the most
successful. - Samuel Smiles
58PROBLEMS
- Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer
is too small to be made into a burden. - Corrie ten Bloom
59FAILURES AND MISTAKES
- Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but
quickly to see how to make them good. - Bertolt Brecht
60THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
- Strong people are made by opposition, like kites
that go up against the wind. - Frank Harris
61REACTING TO EVENTS
- What counts in making a happy marriage is not so
much how compatible you are, but how you deal
with incompatibility. - George Levinger
62SELF-PITY
- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to
it, we can never do anything wise in this world. - Helen Keller
63PEACE OF MIND
- Peace of mind is that mental condition in which
you have accepted the worst. - Lin Yutang
64HAPPINESS
- Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we
pay for its counterfeit. - Hosea Ballou
65ACCEPTANCE
- We must accept finite disappointment, but we must
never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
66FORGIVENESS
- The angry people are those people who are most
afraid. - Dr. Robert Anthony
67COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
- Karl Barth
68THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
THE FENCE
- The only normal people are the ones you dont
know very well. - Foe Ancis
69HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
- Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
- Vauvenargues
70FRIENDSHIP
- The two most important things in life are good
friends and a strong bull pen. - Bob Lemon
71ACCEPTANCE
- Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
- G.K. Chesterton
72OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
- Some people talk about finding God, as if He
could get lost. - Anon
73FAITH AND BELIEF
- Only the person who has faith in himself is able
to be faithful to others. - Erich Fromm
74PRAYER
- Prayer does not change God, but it changes him
who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard
75SELF-ACCEPTANCE
- Im not OK, youre not OK - and thats OK.
- William Sloane Coffin
76SELF-CONTROL
- When the fight begins within himself, a mans
worth something. - Robert Browning
77SELF-RELIANCE
- Your future depends on many things, but mostly on
you. - Frank Tyger
78SIMPLICITY
- What you do not want done to yourself, do not do
to others. - Confucius
79ONE DAY
- Nothing is worth more than this day.
- Johann von Goethe
80YESTERDAY THE PAST
- Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember
big. - Audrey Snead
81TODAY THE PRESENT
- It is difficult to live in the present,
ridiculous to live in the future and impossible
to live in the past. - Jim Bishop
82THIS MOMENT
- The only courage that matters is the kind that
gets you from one moment to the next. - Mignon McLaughlin
83MORNINGS
- With each sunrise, we start anew.
- Anon
84EVENINGS
- Fools look to tomorrow wise men use tonight.
- Scottish proverb
85TOMORROW THE FUTURE
- God made the world round so we would never be
able to see too far down the road. - Isak Dinesen
86AVERAGE, BORING DAYS
- Being bored is an insult to oneself.
- Jules Renard
87DIFFICULT DAYS
- Pain is never permanent.
- Saint Teresa of Avila
88POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES
AND ACTIONS
- The world is like a mirror frown at it, and it
frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. - Herbert Samuels
89ENTHUSIASM
- You will do foolish things, but do them with
enthusiasm. - Colette
90HOPE
- Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do
without. - LeRoy Douglas
91VISUALIZATION
- A genius is one who shoots at something no one
else can see - and hits it. - Anon
92ROLE MODELS
- People never improve unless they look to some
standard or example higher and better than
themselves. - Tyron Edwards
93CHANGE
- Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us
need it at one time or another. - Arthur Christopher Benson
94DECISIONS
- Full maturity is achieved by realizing that you
have choices to make. - Angela Barron McBride
95DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US
- You dont get to choose how youre going to die.
Or when. You can only decide how youre going to
live. - Joan Baez
96DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US
- There is just one life for each of us our own.
- Euripides
97MOTIVATION
- Dont let other people tell you what you want.
- Pat Riley
98REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
- No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone
wants to be loved. - Mignon McLaughlin
99GOALS
- If you dont know where you are going, how can
you expect to get there? - Basil S. Walsh
100FEAR
- We are more often frightened than hurt and we
suffer more from imagination than from reality. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca
101WORRY
- If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you
cannot see the beauty of the sunset. - Krishnamurti
102DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
- To be absolutely certain about something, one
must know everything, or nothing, about it. - Olin Miller
103SECURITY
- To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury
oneself. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca
104RISKS
- It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
- Erica Jong
105COURAGE
- It takes courage to know when you ought to be
afraid. - James A. Michener
106WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER
LIFE DEMANDS OF US
- We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival. - Sir Winston Churchill
107IGNORANCE
- Painting is easy when you dont know how, but
very difficult when you do. - Edgar Degas
108GETTING GOING
- We will not know unless we begin.
- Howard Zinn
109SUCCESS
- Always aim for achievement, and forget about
success. - Helen Hayes
110LUCK
- You dont just luck into things You build step
by step, whether its friendships or
opportunities. - Barbara Bush
111OPPORTUNITY
- Opportunity knocks but once.
- Anon
112COMMITMENT
- He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit
from both sides. - George P. Schultz
113CONCENTRATION
- One arrow does not bring down two birds.
- Turkish proverb
114WORK
- To love what you do and feel that it matters -
how could anything be more fun? - Katharine Graham
115PERFECTION
- If the best mans faults were written on his
forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his
eyes. - Gaelic proverb
116JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,THEN LET IT GO
- An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Friedrich Engels
117TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
- The distance doesnt matter only the first step
is difficult. - Madame Marquise du Deffand
118PERSEVERANCE
- It isnt hard to be good from time to time
Whats tough is being good every day. - Willie Mays
119PROBLEMS
- Every path has its puddle.
- English proverb
120FAILURES AND MISTAKES
- Our mistakes wont irreparably damage our lives
unless we let them. - James E. Sweaney
121THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
- Never complain about your troubles they are
responsible for more than half of your income. - Robert R. Updegraff
122REACTING TO EVENTS
- When things go wrong, dont go with them.
- Anon
123THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
- A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
- Duke Ellington
124SELF-PITY
- The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
- Og Guinness
125PEACE OF MIND
- If you do not find peace in yourself, you will
never find it anywhere else. - Paula A. Bendry
126HAPPINESS
- It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
- Agnes Repplier
127ACCEPTANCE
- Into each life some rain must fall, some days
must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
128FORGIVENESS
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the
attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Ghandi
129COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the
ribbons. - Ruth Ann Schabacker
130THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
THE FENCE
- We love in others what we lack ourselves, and
would be everything but what we are. - R.H. Stoddard
131HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
- What do we live for if not to make life less
difficult for each other? - George Eliot
132FRIENDSHIP
- There is nothing on this earth more to be prized
than true friendship. - Saint Thomas Aquinas
133OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
- Let God love you through others and let God love
others through you. - D.M. Street
134FAITH AND BELIEF
- I have fought a good fight, I have finished my
course, I have kept the faith. - 2 Tm. 47
135CHANGE
- A fanatic is one who cant change his mind and
wont change the subject. - Sir Winston Churchill
136SELF-KNOWLEDGE
- When a man begins to understand himself, he
begins to live. - Norvin G. McGranahan
137SELF-ACCEPTANCE
- Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
- Saint Francis de Sales
138SELF-CONFIDENCE
- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how
to live. - Johann von Goethe
139SELF-RELIANCE
- The best place to find a helping hand is at the
end of your own arm. - Swedish proverb
140SIMPLICITY
- There is only one meaning of life, the act of
living itself. - Erich Fromm
141ONE DAY
- We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life
as well. - George MacDonald
142YESTERDAY THE PAST
- Your past is always going to be the way it was.
Stop trying to change it. - Anon
143TODAY THE PRESENT
- Seize the day, and put the least possible trust
in tomorrow. - Horace
144MORNINGS
- If God adds another day to our life, let us
receive it gladly. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca
145EVENINGS
- Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
- Eph. 1426
146TOMORROW THE FUTURE
- I never think of the future. It comes soon
enough. - Albert Einstein
147DIFFICULT DAYS
- God grant us patience!
- William Shakespeare
148POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES
AND ACTIONS
- Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
149ENTHUSIASM
- The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps
cool. - William McFee
150CHANGE
- Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
- Eric Hoffer
151VISUALIZATION
- We all live under the same sky, but we dont all
have the same horizon. - Konrad Adenauer
152ROLE MODELS
- A good example is the best sermon.
- Anon
153CHANGE
- Because things are the way they are, things will
not stay the way they are. - Bertolt Brecht
154FORGIVENESS
- One forgives to the degree that one loves.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
155INSTINCTS
- The conclusions of passion are the only reliable
ones. - Soren Kierkegaard
156DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US
- He who walks in anothers tracks leaves no
footprints. - Joan L. Brannon
157MOTIVATION
- We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
- Walter Savage Landor
158REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
- Growth begins when we start to accept our own
weakness. - Jean Vanier
159GOALS
- You have to have a dream so you can get up in the
morning. - Billy Wilder
160FEAR
- Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only
make yourself ill. - Shih King
161WORRY
- Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish proverb
162DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
- The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
- Pliny, the Elder
163SECURITY
- No one can build her security upon the nobleness
of another person. - Willa Cather
164RISKS
- Unless you enter the tigers den, you cannot take
the cubs. - Japanese proverb
165COURAGE
- Confidence is directness and courage in meeting
the facts of life. - John Dewey
166WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER
LIFE DEMANDS OF US
- Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow
on a branch that is too weak to bear it. - Victor Hugo
167IGNORANCE
- No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
168GETTING GOING
- If we really want to live, wed better start at
once to try. - W.H. Auden
169SUCCESS
- Before everything else, getting ready is the
secret of success. - Henry Ford
170OPPORTUNITY
- I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it
had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain
171COMMITMENT
- If you dont stand for something, youll fall for
anything. - Michael Evans
172WORK
- Striving for success without hard work is like
trying to harvest where you havent planted. - David Bly
173PERFECTION
- Perfection never exists in reality, but only in
our dreams. - Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
174JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,THEN LET IT GO
- God doesnt make orange juice, God makes oranges.
- Jesse Jackson
175TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
- The distance doesnt matter only the first step
is difficult. - Madame Marquise du Deffand
176PERSEVERANCE
- It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as
you do not stop. - Confucius
177PERSEVERANCE
- It isnt hard to be good from time to time
Whats tough is being good every day. - Willie Mays
178FAILURES AND MISTAKES
- The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who
never does anything. - Eleanor Roosevelt
179REACTING TO EVENTS
- Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear
the burdens of this office. - Abraham Lincoln
180SELF-PITY
- Sadness is almost never anything but a form of
fatigue. - André Gide
181PEACE OF MIND
- Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the
presence of God no matter what the conflict. - Anon
182HAPPINESS
- Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
183ACCEPTANCE
- One cannot get through life without pain What
we can do is choose how to use the pain life
presents to us. - Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
184FORGIVENESS
- Judge not, that ye be not judged.
- Mt. 71
185COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- The mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
186HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
- Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.
- Elbert Hubbard
187HAPPINESS
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience
this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain
188FRIENDSHIP
- When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be
packing. - Anon
189HAPPINESS
- Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be
happy? - A Course In Miracles
190POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES
AND ACTIONS
- Hope is like a road in the country there was
never a road, but when many people walk on it,
the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang
191PRAYER
- The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know
God. - Oswald Chambers
192PERSEVERANCE
- The great thing in this world is not so much
where we are, but in what direction we are
moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
193SELF-ACCEPTANCE
- Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
- Saint Francis de Sales
194HAPPINESS
- Happiness sneaks in through a door you didnt
know you left open. - John Barrymore
195POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES
AND ACTIONS
- If you expect nothing, youre apt to be
surprised. Youll get it. - Malcolm Forbes
196HAPPINESS
- Happiness is often the result of being too busy
to be miserable. - Anon
197ONE DAY
- We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life
as well. - George MacDonald
198ACCEPTANCE
- Lifes under no obligation to give us what we
expect. - Margaret Mitchell
199FORGIVENESS
- Forgive all who have offended you, not for them,
but for yourself. - Harriet Uts Nelson
200COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- Better a little fire to warm us than a great one
to burn us. - Thomas Fuller
201HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
- We are cold to others only when we are dull in
ourselves. - William Hazlitt
202TOMORROW THE FUTURE
- I never think of the future. It comes soon
enough. - Albert Einstein
203FRIENDSHIP
- We secure our friends not by accepting favors but
by doing them. - Thucydides
204POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES
AND ACTIONS
- You can promote your healing by your thinking.
- James E. Sweeney
205PRAYER
- When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon
slide. - Anon
206HOPE
- All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait
and hope. - Alexandre Dumas
207ACCEPTANCE
- Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot
change! - J.C.F. von Schiller
208CHANGE
- There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to
change. - Rollo May
209DECISIONS
- Often greater risk is involved in postponement
than in making a wrong decision. - Harry A. Hopf
210FORGIVENESS
- They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.
- Anon
211DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US
- Id rather be a failure at something I enjoy than
a success at something I hate. - George Burns
212COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- For everything you have missed, you have gained
something else. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
213REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
- Growth begins when we start to accept our own
weakness. - Jean Vanier
214GOALS
- Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
- Chinese proverb
215FEAR
- Fear is the absence of faith.
- Paul Tillich
216WORRY
- Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish proverb
217ACCEPTANCE
- If you have a job without aggravations, you dont
have a job. - Malcolm Forbes
218FORGIVENESS
- It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
- Madame Dorothee Deluzy
219RISKS
- Take calculated risks. That is quite different
from being rash. - General George S. Patton
220COURAGE
- Confidence is directness and courage in meeting
the facts of life. - John Dewey
221COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- To be upset over what you dont have is to waste
what you do have. - Ken Keyes, Jr.
222TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
- From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
- Dante Alighieri
223ACCEPTANCE
- Things turn out best for people who make the best
of the way things turn out. - Anon
224SUCCESS
- A strong passion for any object will ensure
success, for the desire of the end will point out
the means. - William Hazlitt
225OPPORTUNITY
- I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it
had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain
226FORGIVENESS
- When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your
personal attitude toward him. - Norman Vincent Peale
227COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- We never know the worth of water till the well is
dry. - English proverb
228HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
- The greatest happiness in the world is to make
others happy. - Luther Burbank
229JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,THEN LET IT GO
- With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to
fight our battles. - 2 Chr.
230TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
- It is better to light a candle than to curse the
darkness. - Chinese proverb
231FRIENDSHIP
- It is easier to visit friends than to live with
them. - Chinese proverb
232PEACE OF MIND
- There may be those on earth who dress better or
eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God
sleep better. - L. Thomas Holdcroft
233HAPPINESS
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up
their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln
234ACCEPTANCE
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt
the world to himself. - George Bernard Shaw
235FORGIVENESS
- Any man can seek revenge it takes a king or
prince to grant a pardon. - Arthur J. Rehrat
236COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- Sometimes the best deals are the ones you dont
make. - Bill Veeck
237THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
THE FENCE
- The only incurable troubles of the rich are the
troubles that money cant cure. - Ogden Nash
238HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
- If you judge people, you have no time to love
them. - Mother Teresa
239FRIENDSHIP
- One thing everybody in the world wants and needs
is friendliness. - William E. Holler
240OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
- Talking about God is not at all the same thing as
experiencing God, or acting out God through our
lives. - Phillip Hewett
241PRAYER
- When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you
can. - Edward M. Goulburn
242SELF-ACCEPTANCE
- No one can make you feel inferior without your
consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
243SELF-CONFIDENCE
- Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- Thomas Merton
244SELF-RELIANCE
- The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
- Sophocles
245SIMPLICITY
- To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting
oil in it. - Mother Teresa
246ONE DAY
- The most important thing in our lives is what we
are doing now. - Anon
247YESTERDAY THE PAST
- Never let yesterday use up today.
- Richard H. Nelson
248PRAYER
- Dont pray when it rains if you dont pray when
the sun shines. - Satchel Paige
249MORNINGS
- When you rise in the morning, form a resolution
to make the day a happy one for a fellow
creature. - Sydney Smith
250POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES
AND ACTIONS
- Most of the time we think were sick its all in
the mind. - Thomas Wolfe
251ENTHUSIASM
- Morale is the greatest single factor in
successful wars. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
252DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US
- Id rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a
millionaire in any other city. - William A. Hulbert
253VISUALIZATION
- Who is the wise man? He who sees whats going to
be born. - Solomon
254ACCEPTANCE
- If you want a place in the sun, youve got to put
up with a few blisters. - Abigail Van Buren
255CHANGE
- Nothing in this world is permanent.
- German proverb
256INSTINCTS
- It is the heart always that sees, before the head
can see. - Thomas Carlyle
257DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US
- The most exhausting thing in life is being
insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
258MOTIVATION
- A man will fight harder for his interests than
for his rights. - Napoleon Bonaparte
259REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
- We cannot all be masters.
- William Shakespeare
260GOALS
- Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you
havent even begun to live. - William P. Merrill
261FEAR
- If you are afraid for your future, you dont have
a present. - James Petersen
262WORRY
- Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only
saps today of its strength. - A.J. Cronin
263DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
- If we wait until weve satisfied all the
uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca
264RISKS
- In order to find the edge, you must risk going
over the edge. - Dennis Dugan
265COURAGE
- Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
266GETTING GOING
- Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best
opportunities they will never come. - Janet Erskine Stuart
267COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have
before time forces me to appreciate what I had. - Susan L. Lenzkes
268GOALS
- It is in self-limitation that a master first
shows himself. - Johann von Goethe
269RISKS
- Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
- Mark Twain
270COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- He has enough who is contented with little.
- Anon
271ACCEPTANCE
- There are things I cant force. I must adjust.
- C.M. Ward
272PERSEVERANCE
- The great thing in this world is not so much
where we are, but in what direction we are
moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
273FAILURES AND MISTAKES
- The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who
never does anything. - Eleanor Roosevelt
274COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- Who does not thank for little will not thank for
much. - Estonian proverb
275FRIENDSHIP
- Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
- Turkish proverb
276HAPPINESS
- No one gives joy or sorrow We gather the
consequences of our own deeds. - Garuda Purana
277ACCEPTANCE
- The most popular persons are those who take the
world as it is, who find the least fault. - Charles Dudley Warner
278FORGIVENESS
- Revenge could steal a mans life until there was
nothing left but emptiness. - Louis LAmour
279COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
280HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
- To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a
Christian - to help them is. - Frank A. Clark
281ONE DAY
- I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
- Golda Meir
282FRIENDSHIP
- Friendship is a plant which must be often
watered. - Anon
283MORNINGS
- Days sweetest moments are at dawn.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
284PRAYER
- Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all
circumstances give thanks. - The Desert Fathers
285SELF-ACCEPTANCE
- To dream of the person you would like to be is to
waste the person you are. - Anon
286SELF-RELIANCE
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he
finds. - Francis Bacon
287SIMPLICITY
- If you arent going all the way, why go at all?
- Joe Namath
288COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- More than enough is too much.
- Anon
289YESTERDAY THE PAST
- The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies
and loose ends. - Max Beerbohm
290TODAY THE PRESENT
- So often we rob tomorrows memories by todays
economies. - John Mason Brown
291MORNINGS
- With every rising of the sun, think of your life
as just begun. - Anon
292POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES
AND ACTIONS
- Hope is like a road in the country there was
never a road, but when many people walk on it,
the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang
293ENTHUSIASM
- The will to conquer is the first condition of
victory. - Marshal Ferdinand Foch
294HOPE
- Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and
achieves the impossible. - Anon
295CHANGE
- When youre through changing, youre through.
- Bruce Barton
296INSTINCTS
- Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is
genius. - George Bernard Shaw
297FRIENDSHIP
- Laugh, and the world laughs with you weep and
you weep alone. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
298COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is
poor. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca
299PRAYER
- The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
- Martin Luther
300FEAR
- The greatest mistake you can make is to be
continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard
301POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES
AND ACTIONS
- The only way to make a man trustworthy is to
trust him. - Henry L. Stimson
302ENTHUSIASM
- The difference between one man and another is not
mere ability it is energy. - Thomas Arnold
303RISKS
- And the trouble is, if you dont risk anything,
you risk even more. - Erica Jong
304COURAGE
- Youre only as sick as your secrets.
- Anon
305GETTING GOING
- Courage to start and willingness to keep
everlasting at it are the requisites for success. - Alonzo Newton Benn
306SUCCESS
- Success is going from failure to failure without
loss of enthusiasm. - Sir Winston Churchill
307COMMITMENT
- Whether you are really right or not doesnt
matter, its the belief that counts. - Robertson Davies
308FEAR
- Fear is the dark room in which negatives are
developed. - Anon
309RISKS
- The greater the obstacle, the more glory in
overcoming it. - Moliere
310PRAYER
- Amazing things start happening when we start
praying! - Anon
311SUCCESS
- Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
- Anon
312FEAR
- Humor acts to relieve fear.
- Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.
313HAPPINESS
- Life is a romantic business, but you have to make
the romance. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
314ACCEPTANCE
- He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper
but he is more excellent who can suit his temper
to any circumstances. - David Hume
315FORGIVENESS
- Revenge could steal a mans life until there was
nothing left but emptiness. - Louis LAmour
316COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- Too many people miss the silver lining because
theyre expecting gold. - Maurice Setter
317HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
- Real unselfishness consists in sharing the
interests of others. - George Santayana
318FRIENDSHIP
- They are rich who have true friends.
- Thomas Fuller
319COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
- I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man
who had no feet. - Ancient Persian saying
320PRAYER
- Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all
circumstances give thanks. - The Desert Fathers
321SELF-ACCEPTANCE
- You grow up the day you have your first real
laugh at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore
322SELF-RELIANCE
- God gives every bird its food, but he does not
throw it into the nest. - Josiah Holland
323COURAGE
- What would life be if we had no courage to
attempt anything? - Vincent van Gogh
324RISKS
- Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and
building your wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury
325FRIENDSHIP
- Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
326TODAY THE PRESENT
- If you spend your whole life waiting for the
storm, youll never enjoy the sunshine. - Morris West
327PRAYER
- Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
- Thomas B. Brooks
328ONE DAY
- A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not
discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin
329POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES
AND ACTIONS
- The quality of our expectations determines the
quality of our actions. - André Godin